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Monthly Archives: March 2016

‘Not much’ would have been my answer before Christmas, but Santa brought something that changed my mind. Alamein by Stephen Bungay (external link). A former management consultant turned historian, Bungay brings a fresh insight to history by applying modern management thinking. Nominally focused on the 1942 El Alamein battles (external link), the book is really the story…

It’s amazing to look back and see how far the NHS has come since the early days of surgery. Unfortunate souls that went under the knife in the Nineteenth Century could expect gruesome pain, rampant infections, generous blood loss and post-operative shock, and not very good odds on survival! Nowadays, nearly half a million people…

I’m a firm supporter of our publicly funded health service and would stand by my belief that if and when I or any of my family should need help, I would look to the NHS as the first point of call. After all, Aneurin Bevan created a health service which was free at the point…